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Reading Poetry and Drama [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 101
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

The students will be able to:

  1. Recognize the literary age / period and its salient features
  2. Distinguish the prominent writers of the age and their individual style
  3. Appraise and appreciate the poetry and drama and the different literary devices
  4. Differentiate between the various styles of poetry and their characteristics
  5. Demonstrate an understanding of various genera with reference to a specific writers

 

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments, Demonstration

 

Learning activities for the students:

Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Quizzes

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation

  

 

9.00

Thomas Wyatt

Whoso List to Hunt

They Flee From Me

 

Christopher Marlowe

The Aspiring Mind

Beauty Inexpressible

(from The First Part of Tamburlaine, the Great)

The Passionate Shepherd to his Love

 

8.00

Edmund Spenser

Fair proud

Like as a Huntsman

Most Glorious Lord of Lyfe, that on this day…

One day I wrote her name upon the strand 

(Sonnets from Amoretti)

 

8.00

William Shakespeare

Shall I Compare thee…

The Marriage of True Minds

Not Marble Nor the…..

When I Consider….

Like as the Waves …

 

10.00

John Donne

Death, Be not Proud

The Good Morrow

 

Robert Herrick

To Daffodils

 

George Herbert

Vertue

Redemption

 

10.00

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

 

Source Books: 

Source Books:

Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton, 1996.

Gardner, Helen, ed. The Metaphysical Poetry. Penguin Classics, 1960.

Jain, Jasbir, ed. Strings of Gold Part 1. Macmillan India, 1994.

Spenser, Edmund. Edmund Spenser's Poetry, edited by Anne Lake Prescott and Andrew Hadfield. W. W. Norton, 2000.

 

Suggested Readings:

Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning, 2014.

      Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982.

Nayar, Pramod K. Short History of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Scholes, Robert. Elements of Drama. OUP. 1981.

 

E-Resources:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XsDSslyVIu8 [2]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9wysw3RYUac [3]

Academic Year: 
2022-2023 [4]

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[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XsDSslyVIu8
[3] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9wysw3RYUac
[4] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2022-2023